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Orange, Woodmere and Beachwood to connect stoplights on Chagrin Boulevard

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Eton in Woodmere is one of the many shopping plazas along Chagrin Boulevard where shoppers frequently have a hard time finding parking spaces and face heavy traffic.
(Ray Jablonski/Northeast Ohio Media Group)

The project, set to begin in spring, will connect the traffic signals in Woodmere to the traffic system installed along Chagrin in Beachwood and Orange.

“Woodmere controls some systems, and Beachwood controls some systems,” said Jud Kline, an Orange councilman. “The integration of the systems allows for a better traffic sensitive timing.”

Orange Mayor Kathy Mulcahy met with Woodmere Mayor Charles E. Smith and Beachwood Mayor Merle S. Gorden, as well as council members and community members last summer to discuss possibilities to help traffic flow more smoothly on Chagrin, Kline said.

The existing traffic signals at the intersections of Maplecrest, East Brainard, Avondale and Belmont roads and Chagrin Boulevard will be upgraded as needed to connect with the Beachwood system, according to a news release from Orange.

The federal government is paying for the project, which the Ohio Department of Transportation will oversee and the Cuyahoga County Engineering Department will design and execute.

The signal streamlining should be done in 2015, Kline said.

“The traffic system will be able to better respond to traffic flow and load," he said.

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